The conservative people that run my job think they’re funny or something. We get a the standard holidays off but if the 4th of July or whatever falls near a weekend they’ll swap another holiday to make it a 4 day weekend.

The only holidays they “trade away” are MLK day and Juneteenth… Funny that.

I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them sam I am.

I do not like the slythery snake, not even nestled in my cake.

So… My fellow Americans… Ummm… We should copy good things when we see them right? I mean we embraced the taco. So…

:P

My coworker does this with video and shit too it kills me…

5 guys in the same area, 4 of us know how headphones work, but Oldie McDust has to make us listen to his crap music and whatever video he’s listening to at the time…

He figured out how tictok works, even got himself a damn Bluetooth speaker but can’t bother to take the hint from the rest of us and get headphones…

And the Tankie Triad is against and sometimes straight up hostile to new users who aren’t tankies

I think it depends on what you’re saying and how you say it. I’m by no means a tankie but definitely really left leaning, as I learn more i’d probably even say leftist (I just can’t get behind the idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat even if I understand the reasoning) but I comment literally everywhere and have never had an issue with hexbear, .ml, or anything.

I think it’s more of a “know your audience” thing. I don’t go into a hexbear conversation firing off about “China bad” or whatever, I just say what I wanted that was relevant to their post.

And for those of them that wish to reach “the liberal” they should consider the same. If the point is communication then they should try to limit the name calling and anger, even though they have the understanding that “we” enable a system and in a lot of cases support a system that they see as committing some of the worst atrocities in history. Communication should be the goal, not the self serving attack that just makes them feel better (or “us.”)

I love the literal ancient reference lol

Goddamn it Ea-nasir, enough with the subpar copper!

From what I understand, before the reddit exodus Lemmy was very concentrated with leftists so we have that as the starting point. Those that left reddit generally were on the left as well as they tend to be the types that have more sensitivity to corporate bullshit so “unfortunately,” depending on your perspective, Lemmy will definitely be more concentrated with those on the left than elsewhere.

I think the same thing will happen or already has with Blue sky, and whatever tictoks replacement will be. It’s pretty sad to see us pretty much self selecting into echo chambers, but it’s our sense of morality that drives us to do it, not really a specific desire to want to be in an echo chamber. I can’t stand Musk or Fuckerberg so I actively avoid their platforms, but right wingers tend to flock to places that either are openly hostile to those on the left or at least allow/incentivize hate against the left so we end up separating ourselves. I don’t come to Lemmy to be away from right wing content, I do it to avoid “helping” Musk, spez, Fuckerberg.

I definitely value trying to understand opposing opinions as well which is why I never block anyone and thankfully haven’t had anyone deserving of it for harassment or whatever.

Like most things. The extreme ends of “I’m gonna complain about him as much as I possibly can at all times”

I would agree with this if it was one person. But this is the Internet so it’s a collection of everyone posting stuff. It really could be that one individual posts something about trump twice a month, but with everyone else posting at a similar rate it is “constant,” but not the same person. At that point we’d need to have a Trump meeting and decide who gets to post what and when so we don’t pile up too much Trump content lol

S: Hooray, Hooray for the spinster’s sister’s daughter.

D: To the axeman, all supplicants are the same height.

And what if you’re sad and mad all the time?

… Asking for a friend. Yeah… A friend. lol

“with God all things are possible” Matthew 19:26

Someone doesn’t read their Bible!

Was talking to a friend about AI and job loss and eventually he says something about “those people in the past talking about reducing the population” unfortunately being possibly necessary… I think he was referring to some things written on the Georgia guidestones, but Jesus fucking Christ…

Essentially “How many people are allowed to live is entirely dependent on how much labor Mr.Money needs.”

🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮

You’re never going to “find yourself” so even though you find programming mind numbingly boring learn web dev and get in early, make money, and buy amazon & nvidia stock. Don’t stay local for that girl, go away to college, she’s going to leave you anyway. Then I’d tell them to slap me as hard as they can since I almost entirely fucked their future.

I use this in all areas, if the goal is communication then you want to convey a message and have a person be receptive. If you insult a person they immediately get defensive and will instinctively reject or try to combat what you’re trying to convey to them. It’s literally the opposite of what you’d want to be achieving.

The way I see it is insults are for “me,” they’re self serving in that “I” feel better about myself and feel some sort of justification for insulting you (I personally don’t, but I see the appeal.) but if the point is about communication then “I don’t matter” it isn’t about me it’s about the idea.

or an assassin

I’m absolutely convinced, between the previous attempts and every single legal issue of any consequence, that he literally is “Teflon Don.”

If an assassin actually gets a clear shot, it will somehow bounce off and kill whoever is actually running against Trump. That’s the timeline we live in. The joke one.

No but I want to live in a neighborhood where the houses are actually fucking affordable.

It’s so goddamn disgusting to see a house around or even under 200k and then see “55+ community only” every other house is 250k+

Why the fuck do they get to have cheap housing when the argument is always “younger people just haven’t increased their value yet but as they get older they’ll have money too.” (The implication being “don’t worry about poor young people”)

So they get to have their increased wealth and decreased housing cost?

I haven’t tried, but I feel like that concept would be easy for me to grasp because I already find myself doing it with English if I happen to know the old words, Latin or otherwise, used to construct the modern ones.